The White House threat to dismantle NCAR would be a deep setback to U.S. and global scientific research on topics, such as ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

Amidst ongoing budget brinkmanship in Washington, House and Senate panels have proposed significant cuts in federal funding for basic scientific research. That would be a grave mistake for our ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

When SARS-CoV-2 swept the world in early 2020, Stuart Schreiber banded together with a group of scientists to try to find a path out of the pandemic. They poured over papers and preprints, and ...

Basic research The objective of basic research is to gain more comprehensive knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, without specific applications in mind. In industry, basic research ...

A new editorial published in Med Research addresses the critical imbalance between rapid technological advancements and global health accessibility. The authors outline a vision for a new ...

The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program and encourages both new and renewal applications. Applications from ...

Exterior view of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While the Trump Administration's sharp increases in tariffs have received much of the political and economic attention in our ...

The realm of basic and clinical research on biomechanical properties of joints, ligaments, tendons, and related structures is ...